Part 15 (1/2)

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A sign for _er extended and pointing upward, or all the fingers extended, back of hand outward, ht hand from just in front of the forehead, spirally upward, nearly to arht” (_Dakota_ IV)

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Fig 210, fro of medicine or conjuration In that case the head and horns of a white buffalo coere used

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Fig 211 is an Ojibwa pictograph taken fro _medicine- 212 which portrays the rayptian God Knuphis, or Chnum, the spirit, in a shrine on the boat of the sun, canopied by the serpent-Goddess Ranno, who is also seen facing him inside the shrine This is reproduced from Cooper's _Serpent Myths_, p 24

The same deity is represented in Cha 213

Fig 214 is an Ojibwa pictograph found in Schoolcraft, I, pl 58, and given as _power_ It corresponds with the sign for _doctor_, or _ the extended and separated index and second finger of the right hand upward from the forehead, spirally, and is considered to indicate ”superior knowledge” A, both hands are raised to the side of the head, and the extended indices pressing the te 214]

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Fig 215 is also an Ojibwa pictograph fronify _Meda's power_ It corresponds with another sign made for _medicine-man_ by the Absarokas and Comanches, viz, The hand passed upward before the forehead, with index loosely extended

Coe 372, it e of superior n for _trade_ istheles to one another, usually in front of the chest This is often abbreviated by e 452 It is illustrated in Fig 216, taken from the Prince of Wied's _Travels in the Interior of North A 216]

To this the following explanation is given: ”The cross signifies, 'I will barter or trade' Three aniht hand of the cross; one is a buffalo; the two others, a weasel (_Mustela Canadensis_) and an otter The writer offers in exchange for the skins of these ani that of a white buffalo) the articles which he has drawn on the left side of the cross He has, in the first place, depicted a beaver very plainly, behind which there is a gun; to the left of the beaver are thirty strokes, each ten separated by a longer line; this un for the skins of the three ani 217 is fron for to _give_ or _to present_, ewise before the breast, pointing forward and upward, the right above the left, then throwing them quickly doard until the forear 217]

Fig 218 is taken fro a successful raid of the Absarokas or Crows upon the Brule-Sioux, in which the village of the latter was surprised and a large number of horses captured That capture is exhibited by the horse-tracks n for which is often made by a circle forers of both hands or by a circular motion of both hands, palms inward, toward each other In some cases there is a motion of the circle, fro 218]

Fig 219, froh I, pt 3, p 10, represents _Chapultepec_, ”Mountain of the Locust,” by one enorerated gesture The curves at the base of the n for _es 359 and 488

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Fig 220, taken froraph for _soil cultivated_, ie, tilled and planted Fig 221, fro frons for _grass_ and _grow_ on page 343

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The gesture sign for _road, path_, is so two lines forward fro with the hands upon the iinary road The sa 222, taken froe 352 A place where two roads h Two persons are evidently having a chat in sign language at the cross-roads